Declaration of Emergency Committee on Oct. 20th, 2022

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

If I could, respectfully, I asked you to reread the motion that we've already debated, and you're now in on a second intervention. You're actually amending your amendment at this point. The amendment that's on the floor stands at 10 days, not 30 days. That's the debate we're on right now.

[Arif Virani, Liberal, Parkdale—High Park, ON]

Fair enough, Mr. Chair—

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

You can't just change it on the fly in a second intervention.

We've now heard you restate that amendment. That amendment is on the floor. Do we have any other discussion on that motion?

That being said, we will go to a vote.

[Yasir Naqvi, Liberal, Ottawa Centre, ON]

Mr. Chair, can I ask for a clarification?

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

We're in the middle of a vote. What is your clarification?

[Arif Virani, Liberal, Parkdale—High Park, ON]

I believe it is in order for someone to move a subamendment to my amendment. I believe I can move that myself or another person on the committee can move that, Mr. Chair.

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

No, you can't.

[Yasir Naqvi, Liberal, Ottawa Centre, ON]

My clarification is that right now, we are voting on the amendment that's proposed by Mr. Virani.

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

It's the first one, which he was asked to restate. That's correct.

[Yasir Naqvi, Liberal, Ottawa Centre, ON]

Thank you.

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

That is on the floor. We are now in the process of a vote.

Thank you.

[Arif Virani, Liberal, Parkdale—High Park, ON]

On a point of order, Mr. Chair, if there's continued debate on a motion—

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

I'm sorry. It's in a non-debatable situation right now because the vote has been invoked. We are now in the process of voting. It's non-debatable.

[Arif Virani, Liberal, Parkdale—High Park, ON]

I actually don't think that's correct, Mr. Chair.

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

That you can interrupt a vote...? Are you challenging the chair at this moment?

[Arif Virani, Liberal, Parkdale—High Park, ON]

Yes, because we're in the process of debating. I was restating the suggested amendment. You said I couldn't amend my own amendment, and then one of my colleagues tried to take the floor before you called the vote.

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

That's not what happened. No.

[Arif Virani, Liberal, Parkdale—High Park, ON]

I believe that's what just happened, sir.

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

Well, I believe differently.

[Arif Virani, Liberal, Parkdale—High Park, ON]

I'm challenging your decision, then, because you told—

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

Okay. There's a vote now to challenge the chair. Let's do that. We'll challenge the decision on that. We can take that vote accordingly, and then we can move on.

[The Joint Clerk, Mr. Mark Palmer]

The decision of the chair is to proceed to the vote, so the question is, shall the ruling of the chair be sustained?

[The Joint Chair, NDP, Matthew Green]

(Ruling of the chair sustained: yeas 8; nays 3)

We will now proceed with the vote.

[The Joint Clerk, Mr. Mark Palmer]

Just to clarify, now we're voting on Mr. Virani's amendment to the motion.

[Rachel Bendayan, Liberal, Outremont, QC]

Can you read out the amendment, please, Mr. Clerk?